Again I turned and started on my way. Little Ann came to me. She reared up and started licking my hands.
Swallowing the knot in my throat, I said, “I’m sorry, little girl.”
“I want him just as badly as you do, but there’s no way I can get him.”
She ran back to the tree and started digging in the soft ground close to the roots.
“Come on now,” I said in a gruff voice. “You’re both acting silly.”
“You know I’d get the coon for you if I could but I can’t.”
With a whipped-dog look on her face and with her tail between her legs, Little Ann came over.
She wouldn’t even look at me. Old Dan walked slowly around behind the tree and hid himself.
He peeped around the big trunk and looked at me. The message I read in his friendly eyes tore at my heart.
He seemed to be saying, “You told us to put one in a tree and you would do the rest.”
With tears in my eyes, I looked again at the big sycamore.
A wave of anger came over me. Gritting my teeth, I said, “I don’t care how big you are, I’m not going to let my dogs down.”
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